Re: Firefox no longer able to play videos on Facebook

2018-10-04 Thread John Crawley
On 03/10/2018 16.14, Brad Rogers wrote: On Wed, 3 Oct 2018 11:49:31 +0900 John Crawley wrote: Hello John, The extended support firefox-esr is available in Debian Stretch (not Buster atm) at version 60.2.1, so enabling sid is not necessary: I assumed, perhaps wrongly, that Per uses testing.

Re: Firefox no longer able to play videos on Facebook

2018-10-03 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 3 Oct 2018 09:57:15 +0200 Per Dalgas Jakobsen wrote: Hello Per, >I did write "Buster" - So you're correct :) Apparently, I missed that. :-D Cheers, Per. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent" Walking throug

Re: Firefox no longer able to play videos on Facebook

2018-10-03 Thread Per Dalgas Jakobsen
I did write "Buster" - So you're correct :) On 03/10/2018 09.14, Brad Rogers wrote: On Wed, 3 Oct 2018 11:49:31 +0900 John Crawley wrote: Hello John, The extended support firefox-esr is available in Debian Stretch (not Buster atm) at version 60.2.1, so enabling sid is not necessary: I assum

Re: Firefox no longer able to play videos on Facebook

2018-10-03 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 3 Oct 2018 11:49:31 +0900 John Crawley wrote: Hello John, >The extended support firefox-esr is available in Debian Stretch (not >Buster atm) at version 60.2.1, so enabling sid is not necessary: I assumed, perhaps wrongly, that Per uses testing. As a testing user, one still has to ena

Re: Firefox no longer able to play videos on Facebook

2018-10-02 Thread Per Dalgas Jakobsen
On 10/03/2018 04:49 AM, John Crawley wrote: The extended support firefox-esr is available in Debian Stretch (not Buster atm) at version 60.2.1, so enabling sid is not necessary: Thanks. Brads solution worked nicely. Neither Sid or Stretch were enabled, so one or the other... Although, nice

Re: Firefox no longer able to play videos on Facebook

2018-10-02 Thread John Crawley
On 02/10/2018 16.37, Brad Rogers wrote: On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 09:17:52 +0200 Per Dalgas Jakobsen wrote: Hello Per, Until a few days ago, Firefox played videos on Facebook without issues, v52 is too old. IDK whether it's being blocked, or sites are using features not available in v52. This is

Re: Firefox no longer able to play videos on Facebook

2018-10-02 Thread Siard
Sven Joachim wrote: > the issue is that Firefox 52 is not compatible with FFmpeg 4.0 > (libavcodec58). As a result, there is no H.264 support which breaks > video playback on numerous sites. The same appears to be valid for Seamonkey. Its latest version 2.49.4 works fine in stable (FFmpeg 3.2), b

Re: Firefox no longer able to play videos on Facebook

2018-10-02 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 02 Oct 2018 10:11:15 +0200 Sven Joachim wrote: Hello Sven, >This has nothing to do with those sites, the issue is that Firefox 52 is >not compatible with FFmpeg 4.0 (libavcodec58). Thanks for that, Sven. Nice to know the root problem. My searches weren't designed to find causes, just

Re: Firefox no longer able to play videos on Facebook

2018-10-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2018-10-02 08:37 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 09:17:52 +0200 > Per Dalgas Jakobsen wrote: > > Hello Per, > >>Until a few days ago, Firefox played videos on Facebook without issues, > > v52 is too old. IDK whether it's being blocked, or sites are using > features not availab

Re: Firefox no longer able to play videos on Facebook

2018-10-02 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 09:46:45 +0200 Per Dalgas Jakobsen wrote: Hello Per, >Well, that worked! As I knew it would. :-) Seriously, though; We had the same issue here a little while back. It didn't bother me, as I don't use FB or Spotify, but it was an issue for the rest of the family. I had to

Re: Firefox no longer able to play videos on Facebook

2018-10-02 Thread Per Dalgas Jakobsen
Hi Brad, Well, that worked! I gather then, that it did not have anything to do with installation and uninstallation of other software after all!? Thanks :-) ~Per On 10/02/2018 09:37 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 09:17:52 +0200 Per Dalgas Jakobsen wrote: Hello Per, Until a

Re: Firefox no longer able to play videos on Facebook

2018-10-02 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 09:17:52 +0200 Per Dalgas Jakobsen wrote: Hello Per, >Until a few days ago, Firefox played videos on Facebook without issues, v52 is too old. IDK whether it's being blocked, or sites are using features not available in v52. This issue affects not only FB, but also Spotify